tim
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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land.
present day. present time
present day. present time
I've been playing with Duolingo Music and it's odd to me that there's no way to practice part of a song on your own; you always have to start at the beginning of a song and progress linearly. Makes it very hard to nail trickier passages
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've been playing with Duolingo Music and it's odd to me that there's no way to practice part of a song on your own; you always have to start at the beginning of a song and progress linearly. Makes it very hard to nail trickier passages
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
Won't pretend I'm impartial here but I do not think the US should be imprisoning the immigrant spouses of US citizens as they appear for green card interviews. Who would want this? To what end?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Won't pretend I'm impartial here but I do not think the US should be imprisoning the immigrant spouses of US citizens as they appear for green card interviews. Who would want this? To what end?
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Lutherans and Catholics are friends now
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Lutherans and Catholics are friends now
Starting to see people treating every public error as a sign that someone was using AI. Looking forward to reminding future youth that some people can be boneheads without *any* technological aid
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Starting to see people treating every public error as a sign that someone was using AI. Looking forward to reminding future youth that some people can be boneheads without *any* technological aid
One of my most annoying sincerely held beliefs is that open meeting laws should be recognized as unconstitutional infringements on speech and assembly and should be abolished
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my most annoying sincerely held beliefs is that open meeting laws should be recognized as unconstitutional infringements on speech and assembly and should be abolished
Rogue One was a disappointing rewatch after Andor. Andor ended up doing a bunch of careful and clever and sort of boring table-setting for Rogue One and I wish they hadn't bothered.
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Rogue One was a disappointing rewatch after Andor. Andor ended up doing a bunch of careful and clever and sort of boring table-setting for Rogue One and I wish they hadn't bothered.
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Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
hoping that I'm presenting as "efficient and helpful nonprofit board secretary" and not "officious little prick obsessed with pointless rituals and abstruse ceremony" but I'm suspicious that opinion could be blowing either way
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
hoping that I'm presenting as "efficient and helpful nonprofit board secretary" and not "officious little prick obsessed with pointless rituals and abstruse ceremony" but I'm suspicious that opinion could be blowing either way
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
got reorged at work and my new reporting line is extremely distracted. i spent the last few days pairing up with colleagues in the same boat on prototypes of stuff we've been meaning to do for years. it's the most fun i've had in a while. gotta remember to hold more time for this
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
got reorged at work and my new reporting line is extremely distracted. i spent the last few days pairing up with colleagues in the same boat on prototypes of stuff we've been meaning to do for years. it's the most fun i've had in a while. gotta remember to hold more time for this
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“It is my miserable fate to possess more miscellaneous information about U.S. one-cent coins than, possibly, any other person on this planet,” @caity.bsky.social writes, in an investigation of what will happen to the penny now:
What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
The government has no plan.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It is my miserable fate to possess more miscellaneous information about U.S. one-cent coins than, possibly, any other person on this planet,” @caity.bsky.social writes, in an investigation of what will happen to the penny now:
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
It’s a good book
In yesterday's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about the book that I've recommended to more people than any other, and which has incredible things to say about digital media, despite having been published 40 years ago
Sub to the newsletter here:
www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
Sub to the newsletter here:
www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s a good book
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Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
Dems can say: Are you really sure you want to trust Trump, of all people, when he tells you that what he’s directing you to do is lawful, and that you’ll be protected later as a result? That’s a tenuous position for anyone to put themselves into—and Dems should not hesitate to say so.
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Merrick Garland left a standing impression that no one powerful will ever be held accountable. Democrats should rectify that by saying, loudly and every hour, that people who act on illegal orders will face punishment by the next DOJ.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We're down to the *last 7 hours* of contributions getting matched!
We've had 446 donors so far!
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gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
i'll give it to atlassian: they must dogfood their own stuff. the papercuts and brokenness in every user feature are so clearly a product of using jira ineffectively at scale
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i'll give it to atlassian: they must dogfood their own stuff. the papercuts and brokenness in every user feature are so clearly a product of using jira ineffectively at scale
every once in a while i'll think i don't like a record ("Sleep Well Beast", "Trouble in Dreams") and then realize it's full of songs i love
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
every once in a while i'll think i don't like a record ("Sleep Well Beast", "Trouble in Dreams") and then realize it's full of songs i love
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
in honour of today's Edmund-Fitzgerald-posting, i must hold up this delightful interview from 30 years ago
TD Mischke - the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
YouTube video by IkeO_556
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
in honour of today's Edmund-Fitzgerald-posting, i must hold up this delightful interview from 30 years ago
Some community-org colleagues are unsure about using Google Docs for meeting minutes because they are concerned that Google might train models on the docs in such a way that facts from the minutes will be exposed to the public Internet through chatbot conversations.
That's wrong, right? Have a cite?
That's wrong, right? Have a cite?
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Some community-org colleagues are unsure about using Google Docs for meeting minutes because they are concerned that Google might train models on the docs in such a way that facts from the minutes will be exposed to the public Internet through chatbot conversations.
That's wrong, right? Have a cite?
That's wrong, right? Have a cite?
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...